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MBSI Collection

Year Made: Unknown
Maker: Unknown
Serial #: Unknown
Category: Timepieces

Description: Musical automated picture w/clock, 31H x 27W x 7 1/2"D

Acquired How: Bequest
Acquired From: F. Herman Ellenberger
Acquired On: January 30, 1992

Current Status: Unknown

Pieces of Music:
Description of Music:

Additional Notes: 5 1/2" dia. porcelain faced time and strike clock, gilt frame, automated scene--painted paper cut-outs on moving track, wedding or other religious procession w/cathedral background. Early Reuge two-tune movement w/typed tune card. Separate clockwork mechanism drives procession. Photo published in "The Musical Clock" by Arthur Ord-Hume (1995) p. 189.

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